Mastodawn

Jun 27, 2025

"Time for another Sam Moyn piece about how everyone is being so hysterical. "

Trump administration forces president of UVA to resign
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/trump-administration-forces-president-of-uva-to-resign

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Trump administration forces president of UVA to resign - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I don’t think Mr. Jefferson would have approved, if we’re going to get all originalist with it. The University of Virginia’s president, James E. Ryan, has told the board overseeing the school that he will resign in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step aside to help resolve a Justice Department […]

Lawyers, Guns & Money

Laurent Espitallier (ancien)Nov 30, 2024

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La guerre froide des libéraux

À propos de : Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself : Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times, Yale University Press

U.S. Politics in Real Time Jun 1, 2024

#SamuelMoyn's "Liberalism Against Itself" critiques how #ColdWar liberal thinkers betrayed the #Enlightenment ideals of freedom and equality, focusing instead on combating autocracy. This shift has shaped modern liberalism's fixation on "strongmen" while neglecting deeper issues of social justice and economic inequality, leading to a constrained vision of democracy.

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/cold-war-liberalism-moyn-review

How Liberalism Betrayed the Enlightenment and Lost Its Soul

In the anti-communist climate of the Cold War, prominent liberal thinkers abandoned the Enlightenment’s ambitions for a society of real freedom and equality. The consequences have badly warped US politics to this day.